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Brain Imaging Investigation of the Neural Correlates of Emotion Regulation
Published on: August 26, 2011
Role of orientation in perception of emotions
Emese Nagy1, Katherine A Loveland, Peter Molnar
1Department of Psychology, The University of Dundee, Nethergate, Dundee, DD1 4HN, Scotland, UK. E.Nagy@dundee.ac.uk
Abstract:
Our study examined whether perception of novel emotions, as with perception of novel objects, elicits a cardiac orientation reaction. Using a habituation-dishabituation paradigm, data from 11 adult subjects showed that orientation to both novel emotions and novel objects elicited a heart-rate deceleration. Results suggest that the orientation reaction may be an integral part of perception of emotion. Perception of emotions, therefore, is a complex, multistep process that includes an early orientation reaction.
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